Word: jakubowska
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...Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
...subtlety with which she shrouds the butchery is Mme. Jakubowska's greatest achievement. A Nazi officer killing a child whistles unconcernedly throughout; another SS man calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
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